Comment by gwbas1c
Comment by gwbas1c 9 days ago
I don't want to repeat other comments here; but this app smells of a very dangerous attitude: Built with love by novices with grand intentions, with complete blindness to the real consequences that happen when novices are ignorant in their field.
If your goal is to "find a learning project," I suggest finding a very different "learning project." Otherwise, keep "Kate's app" private, word-of-mouth, invite-only for under 20 people.
The 1980s and 1990s are long-gone, you can no longer "learn as you go" when the consequences of your application malfunctioning have real-world implications.
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A few years ago, my employer used an HR app that appeared built by a novice. In that time period; they sent me a PDF with tax information for half the people in the company; and then they royally screwed up the tax information sent to the IRS for me.
How do you know that the authors are novices with "complete blindness" to real consequences? Where are you getting the "find a learning project" goal from?
It sucks that you've been burnt by that before, but it sounds like your employer was the one who screwed you there, not the author of the application.